I have no idea what was or wasn't historically accurate for Englishwomen in the 1940s, so I can't really speak to that, you could very well be correct on that front. I was just basing my assumption on that scene in the second book after she has her pits waxed and says something to the effect that it's the first time…

The shaving thing is addressed (hilariously) in the second book. You're right though, at least according to the book, in the eighteenth century Claire wasn't shaving her pits, although she had been used to it in the twentieth.

He was married in the book. Curious why they haven't mentioned it in the show, and if it's an intentional change, where they're going with it.

Yeah, I saw someone describe this as: duty, passion, love. It was a really beautiful skillful progression.

Haha no it makes total sense. I think for a long time Claire thinks it might only be women because of those songs.

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You didn't imagine it. In the book Claire isn't super worried about it because she thinks it's possible she's barren. And to answer your last question…

Yeah thank God they changed the bit about her getting married to Frank in the exact same church. I always found that ridiculously and unnecessarily coincidental in a story that already had quite a few coincidences.

Yeah…maybe you don't, but I'd say its a bit of understatement to say this wedding episode was pretty highly anticipated by a lot of people, who enjoyed it for myriad reasons, erotic pleasure being just as valid a reason as any other. That it not be absurdly skewed toward the male gaze like so many sexual scenes…

Nice to start having a few more scenes that aren't strictly from Claire's POV. Up til this point she's been in almost every scene of the past six episodes (not a bad thing btw, and certainly a wonderful departure from most tv shows, just very singly focused so far). Even if it's still in the guise of things Jamie is…

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I guess they didn't want to draw too much attention to it since they weren't going to explain who he was? Still though, I agree, he could have looked a little more upset. Maybe they'll flash back to the same scene later with a little more emotion on his part.

Haha no kidding. I was a little put out.

Apparently its Andrew Whipp - they screencapped him here: http://www.hypable.com/2014/09/14/out…

Yeah...Kelly is scarily on the money with all the intimations of Randall being sexually turned on by the flogging considering later events...

Yeah, I didn't mention that bit because its a little spoilery (?) but Jamie owns property that they have no way to use if he dies unmarried - it would go back to the Frasers. If he dies with Claire as his wife, the property goes to her, and Dougal could [presumably?] marry her by force and gain control of the…

Its definitely addressed. It basically comes down to what they've already established as Dougal's intense desire to keep Jamie from ever having a shot at being Laird of the Mackenzie clan. He'd have no chance with an English wife.

Agree with you that bookClaire would probably have known better than to express some of those opinions. But at the same time, she does have a reputation in the books for be rather free with her opinions and having a bit of a big mouth. I'd rather have a competent character who makes occasional mistakes than one who is…

Thank God you put this up. That very last scene in the preview where he just stares at her and then laughs....no words. I watched it an embarrassing number of times.